I wish I could have skipped college..

Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significa….

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting..

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not….

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sur….

Proper names are rigid designators..

Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not ….

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be s….